At its core, pheasant hunting is a simple pursuit. You, plus maybe a couple of buddies, and a dog tromp through the uplands and lowlands flushing roosters. You walk until you shoot your limit and then ...

BELLINGHAM, Minn. — The constant, soft-tinkling bell hanging from the collar of Kota, a well-mannered female German shorthaired pointer, stopped tinkling, which tends to get your attention if you are ...

A bag of South Dakota roosters, primarily taken on CREP walk-in. While the golden age of pheasant hunting may be behind us (just hunt with an older wingshooter and he’ll tell you all about it) there ...

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Dogs rightly get much of the credit for putting the fun in pheasant hunting, but the birds themselves deserve as much or more. Apart from their nearly unrivaled physical beauty and their status as a ...

MCCLUSKY, N.D. -- We had hardly left the truck on this October afternoon when Chance, a 19-month-old Brittany, congealed into a rigid point in the ditch along the road. There was no doubt that a ...

LINCOLN COUNTY — Determined people settled in western Minnesota 150 years ago, including in this county, which borders South Dakota. Blizzards, mosquitoes, leaky sod huts and the grasshopper invasion ...

The annual opening of Michigan’s pheasant season on October 20 is a revered day for me, and has been since I was a kid. My first memories of hunting are of being in the fields of our farm with ...

Steven Reynolds, a free-lance writer who lives in Palmville Township near Wannaska, Minnesota, shared this story of a problematic pheasant rooster that took up residence a few years ago on his ...

In the fall of 1941, just before the U.S. entered World War II, hunters in Minnesota went afield and shot 1.8 million pheasants, the most ever. That was just 25 years after the birds, natives of China ...

“We’ll flush about 150 birds today,” I told my new friend M.D. as we loaded our guns by his truck. A recent transplant to pheasant country at the time, M.D. raptly surveyed the wide fields, trying to ...